1,000 hp Superformance drift Cobra shakes up SEMA ’17

[cycleguy55]

Originally Posted by Alfa02

Buzz, I do get the drag race thing about
warming up tires" (Burnouts), but as you know burning them down the 1/4 mile IS not the fastest way to the end. As a Vintage racer / Autocrosser, the quickest way is NOT to spin your tires. This Drifting thing, just doesn't make sense to me, what is the end result? Not the quickest way around a course, Is it by a judge, or judge's (Crowd vote?) that determines a winner? That then is just some other guy's option, which in the end means nothing. I've watched these thing's on TV, 2-cars side-by-side, smoking their tires, and the car control it takes, but nothing different then two (or more) road racer's doing the same thing, and yes we're doing a four wheel drift, only we're trying to go as fast as we can to beat the other cars. To me it look's the same only in slow motion, with tire smoke. No offense, I guess I'm just too old to understand it Cheers Tom

Drifting to me is all about 'show', not about 'go'. Analogies from the Winter Olympics:

• Figure skating vs speed skating
• Freestyle vs downhill skiing

Ask yourself: Do you want to show off or go fast?

[Buzz]

Originally Posted by cycleguy55

Ask yourself: Do you want to show off or go fast?

Maybe both... Do the two need to be mutually exclusive? Are the chrome bits, shiny paint etc. on your Cobra all there to make it go fast?